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TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

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KOQo9 TIL Agave Nectar, touted as a somewhat healthier alternative to cane sugar, actually contains more Fructose than HFCS and is extremely unhealthy.
dwxr TIL that German police were not able to bring a jewel theft case to trial because their DNA evidence matched two identical twins who each denied culpability. Both walked free
198D TIL, Mozart had a sister (Maria Anna) who was also an accomplished musician and composer, sometimes even receiving top billing. She was no longer taken on tour with her famous brother once she reached “marriageable age”.
oBQJ7 TIL about the Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake', a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.
Z8kmG TIL that Bangladesh and the U.S. state of Illinois are approximately the same size in area (57,000 sq miles or 149,000 km2) yet Bangladesh has a population of 162,000,000 people, and Illinois has 12,000,000.